The Gospel by Alicia Keys

So we all got children, products of the ghetto
Momma cooked us soup, daddy did the yelling
Uncle was a drunk, (1)____________ was a felon
When he got pitched, he told them he wasn't tellin'
Auntie was a cook, her husband was a crook
Cause (2)__________ job he had they be payin' him off the books
Ghetto university, (3)__________________ is all it took
In a tenement I was listenin' to the hook
Change gon' come, the (4)____________ of Sam Cook
When the feds comin', (5)__________________ get shook
Now we doin' life like Eddie Murphy and Martin
On the chain gang, I was singing into the coffin

The roaches and the rats, heroin and the cracks
Couldn't (6)__________ me, I'm just giving the facts
Tryna hit the top, the bottom ain't where it's at
Everybody got a past but you can never go back

Sing
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah)...

Tellin' you like it is, how we (7)________ gon' live?
If we ain't gettin' money, how we feedin' the kids?
It's a revolving door, where brothers be doin' bids
I know it (8)__________ wrong but the door (9)________ be what it is
Survival of the fittest, this (10)________ girl the illest
Broke (11)______________ and (12)__________ (13)________ (14)________ me heebie-geebies
Life seems (15)________ but nothin' (16)________ comes easy
Whatever's in the dark, can always become the light
If you ain't in a battle, how you gon' win the fight?
Gotta (17)__________ the truth when I'm up in the booth
The (18)______________ be flyin' birds but they don't be on the roof
Poverty is a pain like you pullin' a tooth
Told the (19)______________ don't let me go (20)________ I'm (21)____________ in Juice

The roaches and the rats, (22)____________ and the cracks
Couldn't blame me, I'm (23)________ giving the facts
Tryna hit the top, the bottom ain't (24)__________ it's at
Everybody got a past but you can never go back

Sing
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah)

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